ECU Opera Theater Fall 2024
Director: Daniel Shirley
Friday, September 27, 2024 3:30pm
Sunday, September 29, 2024 3:30pm
A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall View map
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
Come enjoy the best of vocal music during ECU family weekend!
Undergraduate and graduate students from the ECU School of Music will present a diverse and engaging program of solos and ensembles, featuring some of the best-known and best-loved music from the canon.
Music-directed by Prof. Eric Stellrecht; directed by Dr. Daniel Shirley.
Free. Open to the public. For more information call 252-328-6851.
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ECU School of Theatre & Dance, in collaboration with ECU Opera Theater and the New Carolina Sinfonia, presents:
by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
November 20-24, 2024
Wednesday–Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 2:00pm
McGinnis Auditorium: Messick Theatre Arts Center (ECU School of Theatre & Dance)$20 General Public | $15 Seniors/Faculty/Staff | $10 Students/Youth
Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is the compelling tale of a Victorian-era barber, who returns home to London after fifteen years of exile and vows revenge on the despicable judge that ruined his life. But when vengeance eludes him, Sweeney turns his wrath on the entire human race.
Past ECU Opera Theater Productions:
Gal Youngin’ (Mark Taggart, Ann McCutchan) 2025 – premiere
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Sondheim) 2024 – collaboration with ECU School of Theatre
Gods and Mortals: Prologue of Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Monteverdi) and Venus and Adonis (John Blow) 2024
The Tender Land (Copland) 2023
Spring Scenes 2023
The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore) 2022
Double Bill: The Prodigal Son (Britten)/Suor Angelica (Puccini) 2022
The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and Sullivan) 2021
Dreamer (Mark Taggart, Ann McCutchan) 2021 – premiere
The Fantaskicks (Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt) 2020
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdink) 2019
A Little Night Music (Stephen Sondheim) 2019
L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi) 2019
Tell it Slant (Melinda Wagner) 2019 – collaboration with NewMusic Initiative – premiere
Dialogues of the Carmelites (Francis Poulenc) 2018
Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan ) 2017
Don Giovanni (W.A. Mozart) 2017
Four Saints in Three Acts (Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson) 2016
Susannah (Floyd) 2016
The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa)
The Beggar’s Opera (John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten) 2015
Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Three One-Acts) Fables, Four Dialogues, and Bertha (Ned Rorem) 2014
Idomeneo (Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Based on the play Idomenée by Antoine Danchet) 2014
Tales of Love and Loss from the British Isles (Opera Scenes by Elgar, Britten, and Vaughan Williams) and Riders to the Sea (Ralph Vaughan Williams) 2013
Lizzie Borden (Beeson) 2012
Insectaphobia (or, Bug Off!) (Macchia) 2013 – collaboration with NewMusic Initiative – premiere
Così fan tutte (Mozart) 2012
Così Quintet The Medium (Menotti) 2011
A Hand of Bridge (Barber) 2011
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Benjamin Britten) 2010
Mary Stuart (Gaetano Donizetti) 2011
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) 2010
The Consul (Menotti) 2009
Madama Butterfly (Puccini) 2009
HMS Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan) 2008
The Magic Flute(Mozart) 2008
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Sondheim) 2007
The Old Maid and the Thief (Menotti) 2007
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) 2007
Curlew River (Britten) 2006
Il Re Pastore (Mozart) 2006
The Crucible (Robert Ward) 2005
Dialogues of the Carmelites (Poulenc) 2005
A Hand of Bridge Acis and Galatea (Handel) 2004
Don Giovanni (Mozart) 2004
A Childhood Miracle (Rorem) 2003
Three Sisters who are not Sisters (Rorem) 2003
Albert Herring (Britten) 2003 Venus and Adonis (Blow) 2002
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) 2001
Sinners and Saints (An evening of scenes from American Operas) 2001
The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) 2000
Così fan tutte (Mozart) 1999
Suor Angelica (Puccini) 1999
Martin’s Lie (Menotti) 1999